Little Mao hits the CICFF

Little Mao enjoyed a screening at America's largest kids' film festival, the Chicago International Children Film Festival, last Friday at the renown Facets Multi-Media cinema.  Here are some images:

LITTLE MAO screens at Facets (photo: Julio Cabrera)

Director Allan Tong doing a Q&A after the screening

 

Allan with fellow filmmakers (from Puerto Rico), Julio & Leslie Cabrera

LITTLE MAO visits the home of the blues, Chess Records

MAO takes Brantford

November begins with Little Mao playing the Brantford Film Festival north of Toronto.  The film plays Saturday, November 3, 1:00 pm during the middle of the weekend festival, and barely a week after it screens at the Chicago International Childrens Film Festival.  Seize the day!  Seize the hour!

photo by Johnny Vong

 

Little Mao is going to Chicago

The Chicago International Childrens Film Festival will screen Little Mao on Friday, October 26, 11:45 am in the Me 'n' My Family program of short film.  The screening takes place at Chicago's venerable Facets Multi-Media Theater.  The CICFF is one of the largest childrens film festivals in the world, rivalling TIFF Kids where Little Mao had its world premiere last April.  Click for details.

Little Mao up for award at Grand River in Kitchener-Waterloo

Little Mao is a finalist in the SHORT Shorts competition hosted by the Grand River Film Festival in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario.  The finalists will be screened followed by a reception open to the public on Tuesday, October 16, 2012, 7:00pm at the Princess Twin Cinemas, 46 King St. North, Waterloo, N2J 2W9.  Mao's director and some of its stars will attend.  Watch here for the results.  For tickets, click here. Facebook event.

Cinefest invites LITTLE MAO to Sudbury

Chairman Bobby (Kevin Wang) will take another swing at a film festival on September 18

 

Cinefest Sudbury International Film Festival has invited Little Mao to screen on 2:00 pm on September 18.  Chairman Bobby, Jan, Joe and all his comrades will appear onscreen at this prestigious festival in northern Ontario.

 

Little Mao premiered at Toronto's TIFF Kids Film Festival in April, playing to three sold-out audiences at the TIFF Bell Lightbox.  "We are honoured to appear in Sudbury, home to many of our proletarian brothers and sisters," announced Chairman Bobby.

Comrade Joe (Isaac Pilozo) ponders the workers' paradise from home plate

Chairman Bobby's Little Red Guards in a class struggle with the 1st Base Umpire (Sonya Morson)

Cinefest, as it's commonly called, is one of Canada's premiere film festivals.  Little Mao will appear in a short films program on September 18.  The full festival schedule is found here: http://cinefest.com/  

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TIFF Kids and Indie Spirit screenings today

The Opposing Team: Alexandra Clementi, Alexandra Wellman, Tia Ng, Charlotte Herie, Emily Nankoo, Kevin Nankoo, Josh Ling

Little Mao screens for the fourth and final time at the TIFF Kids International Film Festival today at 3:00 pm.  The program in which Mao appears, Canada For Kids, is sold-out. 

In the U.S. Mao makes its second appearance at Colorado Springs' Indie Spirit Film Festival at 8:00 pm local time. 

"We have conquered Toronto and America!" declared an exhausted, but spirited Chairman Bobby after three screenings in Toronto, one in Colorado, plus two media interviews. 

"Who shall be next?"

LITTLE MAO director & cast talk baseball and Mao on TORONTO TV

TORONTO TV's Joseph Lau speaks to the director and stars of Little Mao during the world premiere screenings the TIFF Kids International Film Festival.  The final screening takes place Sunday, April 22, 3:00 at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, while Little Mao makes its American premiere today at 2:45 pm and Sunday, April 22 at 8:00 pm. at the Indie Spirit Film Festival in Colorado Springs.

Click to play interviews.  Note: Kevin's solo interview is in Mandarin (not English):